EXTENSION AND EXPANSION OF AUTHORITY TO CONDUCT PERSONNEL DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS.

SEC. 342. EXTENSION AND EXPANSION OF AUTHORITY TO CONDUCT PERSONNEL DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS. (a) China Lake Demonstration Project.— (1) Section 6 of the Civil Service Miscellaneous Amendments Act of 1983 (Public Law 98–224; 98 Stat. 49) is amended by striking out “until September 30, 1995,”. (2) In the event of a reorganization of the organization carrying out the personnel demonstration project referred to in section 6 of such Act, such section shall apply with respect to the successor to that organization. (b) Defense Laboratories Personnel Demonstration Projects.— (1) The Secretary of Defense may, with the approval of the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, carry out personnel demonstration projects at Department of Defense laboratories designated by the Secretary as Department of Defense science and technology reinvention laboratories. (2) (A) Each personnel demonstration project carried out under the authority of paragraph (1) shall be generally similar in nature to the China Lake demonstration project. (B) For purposes of subparagraph (A), the China Lake demonstration project is the demonstration project that is authorized by section 6 of the Civil Service Miscellaneous Amendments Act of 1983 to be continued at the Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, California, and at the Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, California. (3) If the Secretary carries out a demonstration project at a laboratory pursuant to paragraph (1), section 4703 of title 5, United States Code, shall apply to the demonstration project, except that— (A) subsection (d) of such section 4703 shall not apply to the demonstration project; and (B) the authority of the Secretary to carry out the demonstration project is that which is provided in paragraph (1) rather than the authority which is provided in such section 4703.